Posts by clairegriffo

Original Post by lahuera316:

This happens to me all the time.  It happened when I was on Weight Watchers and is happening again now that I joined Calorie Count (CC).  I am a female, 5’9”, weigh 198.8, goal weight is 155.  According to CC, I just ingest 1350 calories and expend 2100 calories a day.  I am trying to eat healthy and have stayed between 1400 and 1800 calories.  My exercise consists of strength training (mornings) and brisk walk/jog/run (afternoons) about 4 times a week.

 

I weighed myself and found I gained a pound.  I really thought I would lose weight.  This has consistently happened to me with Weight Watchers and now on CC.   I turn down all treats; feel I am eating like I should, what is happening?  Why don’t I lose weight!!!   I have friends who are sedentary and they lose 1.5 to 2 pounds a week.  I don’t get it??

if you do the same excersise day in day out your body will ajust to that and you will reach a platue you have to keep yourbody guessing and change your exercise I read it in a articl a few weeks ago :o) in my opinion id try even more excersise if your not getting the results you want...plus you may be gaining muscle you proberlly are loseing weight but its just converting.

Original Post by clairesty:

A sad but true fact is nobody will ever be fully happy. I used to think " If was slimmer I would be so much happier"

Yeh I lost the weight & was happier. Once the health/weight issue is under control you will be happier, but soon you realise that there are other aspects of your life that you are not happy with.

The difference is that now you are at the healthy weight you want to be, you have a lot more confidence to change these things in your life that your not happy with. I found that my weight problem over shadowed any other problems, so once that my weight was under control I found other parts of my life I wasn't happy with & it was scary.

For example, in the 2 years since I lost weight I've - Broken up with my boyfriend of 4 years (it just wasn't going anywhere) I lost my job & changed my career path then lost that job 8 months later & recently started another job in a different city, I met a new fella last year & went to America with him last month, also a lot of my relationships with my friends had changed as I was no longer the 'fat friend'.

The point is life is just one long string of fixer-uppers. TBH before I lost weight my life the same old s**t all day every day for about 5 years.

As you said, you just gotta get on with it. But don't forget to enjoy it as much as you can.

I doubt surgery is the answer. If you yourself can say "I'm not fat" then you don't need to be thinner. As long as you're getting a decent & varied diet & your BMI falls into a healthy range - relax & just enjoy your life.

 

 Im the same i am convinced in my head that if i was thinner bad things wouldnt happen to me - i wake up everyday hatin my body im not even massive or obese im just not happy but then i think if i was thinner everything would go right

Drink a pint of water before you eat sometimes your not really hungry and we tend to eat..

Have some self dissapline to and eat slower..

I bought a chicken pasta bake for tea and soup for my dinner in work but i ate the pasta bake for dinner and having soup for me tea instead

Just have something light for tea tonight dont beat yourself up about it you cant deprive yourself of thing because in the end you will only end up "binging"

Im eating a bag of maltesers now my first chocolate since christmas and i dont feel bad one bit as im active all the time and run every night.

Loosers let it happen!

Winners Make it happen!

Try some sort of different excersize then ...if you give up who feels bad? You then it starts all over again

Hi ive just joined this site!

Ive changed my eating habbits as a lifestyle change and excersize 5 times a week now been doing this for 3 weeks im 158 pounds and 5ft 5 would be good to buddy up as i think it keeps you motivated